Thursday, August 4, 2011

People Who Treat Google Like a Magic 8 Ball



Funny experiment.

Start typing 'Will I Ever' into google....

Some of the autofills are absolutely ridiculous:

--Will I ever find love
--Will I ever get married
--Will I ever be good enough

Other amusing searches:

--What is the meaning of life
--What is the meaning of love
--Do I love him
--Do I look good
--Am I going crazy

Dear searchers - I do know that it can feel like the source of all information at times....however, I think this may have gone a step too far.  Is it that someone thought, per se, that some knowing being out there published accurate information on whether or not said someone would find love, and it was really just a matter of finding this information on the internet?  Actually, it appears, quite a few someones may have had this thought.

Or, perhaps, more logically, someone was dealing the frustrations of wondering about one of said topics and was looking for some articles on the subject of how to cope, or to perhaps to see if there are others out there who feel the same way.

I'm sticking with my first theory.  Does google have any good information on what the future holds for Jaime?!  Has anyone ever been guilty of one of said googles?  Has anyone found anything good?  Any other good ones my dear readers can think of?!   Your thoughts!?

2 comments:

Trillium said...

I was just thinking on a similar bent when I googled "internet magic 8 ball" just to see what would pop up. funny this "daily ramblings" post came up. Well, I've never used to to the extreme you mention, but it seems logical, given that we so often seek answers on everything else from the internet. Why not just use it like a magic eight ball!

travis strickland said...

So…I was thinking about how people treat google like a magic 8 ball, before I read your post, and, then, I googled "google magic 8 ball" to see if anyone else already posted something to the same effect. Your post was the fist to come up addressing what I was thinking about. As I expected, someone else considered the notion before I did…googling google about people using google…people posting about other people googling…funny stuff

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